Carl Daniel Tanner

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Carl Daniel Tanner (born August 14, 1791 in Herzberg am Harz , † March 14, 1858 in Hanover ) was a German engraver and gunsmith .

Life

family

Carl Daniel Tanner was a member of the rifle manufacturers - the Tanner family and son of Johann Siegmund Friedrich Tanner.

He married Wilhelmine Reinhausen on May 2, 1816 in Herzberg (born November 1, 1793 in Herzberg am Harz; † February 24, 1876 in Hanover), daughter of the former Rademachermeister zu Herzberg, later brewer and brandy distiller Christian Daniel Reinhausen and married in 1784 Wife Joh. Henr. Christian. Elisabeth Lauterbach (1764–1831) from Herzberg. The couple had three sons and four daughters, including

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Hermann Tanner (born April 19, 1818 in Herzberg), who later settled in the Russian Empire as a gunsmith and rifle manufacturer in St. Petersburg ;
  • Ernst Louis Ferdinand Tanner (born April 28, 1825 in Herzberg am Harz), who initially joined the family business and presumably built up the arms manufacture Tanner et Fils, Armurier du Roi de Hanovre et du Duc de Brunswick in Belgium between 1855 and 1857 in Liège , which lasted until 1885 when the Fabrique Nationale Herstal received the state monopoly.
  • Ernst Heinrich Daniel Carl Tanner (born August 22, 1842 in Hanover), the youngest son of Carl Daniel Tanner, who later worked in companies in Liège.

Career

Carl Daniel Tanner was born at the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover in 1791 as in Herzberg am Harz .

After his training and the elevation of the former electorate to the Kingdom of Hanover , Tanner, who also worked as an engraver, started his own rifle manufacturer in Herzberg around 1825.

1829 Tanner was in the residence of Hanover to Hof - Quartermaster charged and has since worked at the city's Royal Rifle chamber as well as a gun manufacturer at the address Lange Straße 06/07 . His company was continued from 1854 and also after his death until 1879 as CD Tanner & Söhne with headquarters at Theaterstrasse 14 .

In 1854 CD Tanner & Sohn took part in the First General German Industrial Exhibition in Munich , where the company was awarded a medal of honor "for characteristic simplicity, elegant and particularly hard-working stock of its rifles".

Portraits

The Hanoverian drawing teacher and portrait painter Karl Dölitzsch made two oil paintings of Carl Daniel Tanner and his wife in 1850, which remained in the family's possession, but burned in the Second World War. However, impressions of the two paintings have survived.

Well-known works (selection)

literature

Web links

  • CD Tanner & Sohn , website littlegun.info illustrated with numerous detailed photos

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f tradition. Journal for Company History and Business Biography , Volume 6, Frankfurt am Main: Knapp, 1961, pp. 283, 289; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ Volker Gremmler: CD Tanner, Hanover - purveyor to the court and rifle manufacturer / court armorer of the king , in: Deutsches Waffen-Journal , issue 12 (2003), p. 62ff.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Jürgen Ruoff: A royal gift / Liège percussion pistol pair from 1858 , in: Deutsches Waffen-Journal , Heft 9 (1998), p. 1366ff.
  4. ^ Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann (Ed.): Report of the Assessment Commission at the general German industrial exhibition in Munich in 1854 . Munich: Verlag von Georg Franz, 1855, p. 50; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Carl Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanner, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver, rifle manufacturer and royal Hanoverian court quartermaster
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzberg am Harz
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1858
Place of death Hanover